outspread
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At the top is an enamelled dove with outspread wings, which represents the Holy Ghost.
From Reuters ● May 5, 2023
We all wish we could still run into the outspread arms of the father we lost.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
In it, the angel’s wings are outspread, his gaze forward, his expression startled and open-mouthed, “looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating,” writes Benjamin.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
She then raised her outspread arms, thunder roared, lightning bolts flashed and — in some versions of the commercial — wild animals stampeded.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
A flock of gulls swoops down to the breakers, wings outspread, crying.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes he is a seraphic creature outspreading his mighty pinions to greet some tremendous spirit sunrise.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
It produced in Bates unthinking irritation that Nature should quietly go on outspreading her evening magnificence in face of his discomfort.
From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
God Christ—along the weary lands, What lone invisible Calvaries are set, What drooping brows with dews of anguish wet, What faint outspreading of unwilling hands, Bound to a viewless cross with viewless bands.
From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
